9-letter words containing s, p, o, n
- promising — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- propontis — Marmara
- proposing — to offer or suggest (a matter, subject, case, etc.) for consideration, acceptance, or action: to propose a new method.
- prosimian — belonging or pertaining to the primate suborder Prosimii, characterized by nocturnal habits, a long face with a moist snout, prominent whiskers, large mobile ears, and large, slightly sideways-facing eyes, comprising the lemur, loris, potto, bush baby, and aye-aye. Compare anthropoid.
- prosiness — of the nature of or resembling prose.
- prosodian — a person skilled in prosody
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proudness — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pseudonym — a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (def 1).
- pudendous — shameful
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purposing — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- push-down — a sudden, downward shift by an aircraft in the direction of the flight path.
- pycnosome — a body type characterized by stockiness
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- repulsion — the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
- responded — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- responder — a person or thing that responds.
- responser — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responses — an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- responsor — the portion of an interrogator-responsor that receives and interprets the signals from a transponder.
- responsum — the reply of a noted rabbi or Jewish scholar as rendered in the Responsa.
- rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- rose pink — a light pinkish red color.
- salpingo- — indicating the Fallopian tubes
- san pablo — a city in the Philippines, on S Luzon.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sapanwood — a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family.
- saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
- sapogenin — a crystalline substance derived from saponin
- saponated — treated or combined with soap
- saxophone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a conical, usually brass tube with keys or valves and a mouthpiece with one reed.
- scopoline — a soluble crystalline alkaloid obtained from the decomposition of scopolamine and used as a sedative. Formula: C8H13NO2
- senna pod — a pod of any of various tropical plants of the leguminous genus Cassia, used in making laxatives
- septation — a division between cavities or parts of an organism by partitions or septa
- set point — tennis: point that will win a set
- shipborne — carried on a ship.
- shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
- shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
- shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
- shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
- shopwoman — a woman who works in a shop
- shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
- show pony — a person who tries to be the centre of attention; show-off